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• 3rd Estate

  • Peasants
  • Laborers
  • Bourgeoisie
• Privileges of the 1st Estate

  Owed land, received money from peasants, didn't pay taxes
• 2nd Estate


  • Nobles
• Privileges of the 2nd Estate

  • Right to sword, titles, land, few taxes, collected feudal dues from peasants, Primogeniture
• Population of the peasants = 80%
• Last Estates General meeting was 175 years ago
• What the peasants had to pay

  • Tithes
  • Feudal dues
  • Rents
  • Taxes
• How the National Assembly came to be

  Estates General said everyone shouldn't vote individually, they revolted and met on their own
• Who said "after me, the deluge"

  louis xv (15)
• Who built Versailles

  louis xiv (14)
• Who was the "well-beloved" king = louis xv (15)
• How old was Louis XVI when he became king = 19
• Why Louis XVI called in the Estates General

  Debt - upper class won't get taxed and bankers won't give him money
• Abbé Sieyès: '"Nothing would be good without the 3rd estate" - 3rd estate is EVERYTHING'
• Problem with the Estates General meeting they hadn’t met in 175 years so they didn’t know their powers, how it works, and they argued what the rules were,
• Why the Estates General voting was unfair

  Each estates was allowed 1 vore BUT the 1st and 2nd outvoted the 3rd
• Tennis Court Oath

  The oath many people took to not stop meeting until a constitution was written and adopted
• Where was Marie Antoinette from

  Austria
• Storming of the Bastille


  July 14, 1789
• What caused the Great Fear

  Hunger, poor harvest, rumors, many peasant riots - REBELLION
• What the August Decrees did

  Abolished feudalism, repealed all feudal dues and tithes, removed privileges

  Declared the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen - freedom of speech, press, all men are equal, right to government, right to resist oppression, public office, etc.
• Influences on the Declaration of Rights of Man

  US Declaration of Independence and the English Bill of Rights
• Main idea behind the Declaration of Rights of Man

  Democracy and rights
• What the Women's March accomplished = Forced king louis xvi 16 to move to Paris
• Who wrote the Declaration of Rights of Women

  Olympe de gouge
• When did Louis try to escape = After the constitution of 1791
• What replaced the National Assembly = Legislative assembly
• When did the French start talking about a republic = After louis tried to escape
• What was the Declaration of Pillnitz = Let other European rulers to come help Louis xvi restore french monarchy
• What officially ended the monarchy = death of king
• Why did the Legislative Assembly dissolve = It voted itself out of existence and national convection come in to write a new constitution
• Execution method = Guillotine
• Reign of Terror begins

  Sept 1793
• Robespierre


  A Jacobin leader who was in charge of the Reign of Terror
• Émigrés


  Nobles who fled France and tried to get foreign countries to restore the monarchy
• Girondists

  • Came from Gironde, represented middle class, feared a dominated Paris France, republicans but NOT radicals
• Major figures executed during the Reign of Terror

  • King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Charlotte Corday, Olympe de Gouges, Danton
• What came after the Reign of Terror = Reforms of the National Convention
• What the National Convention had to deal with

  • Disorder
  • Revolts in France
  • Foreign invaders
  • Another constitution
  • Create a republic
  • Get rid of the monarch
• What the French army did after defeating Austria and Prussia = invade Austrian netherlands